I thumped my head on the tile floor and wept for Brooke and the rebels who had died because of my stupid mistake. Just as the door blended into the wall, he released me. Gene’s back to me, he held up that metal circle trinket and clicked. Even a fraction of movement felt like a knife slitting deeper into my spine. I wanted to rip out his throat, stomp on his heart, but I couldn’t move. Peering up under my eyelashes, I watched him walk toward the sliding door. “Next time it won’t be so soft,” he said. He ran a knuckle down my cheek to wipe away another teardrop, and then grazed his index finger slowly across my neck, savoring my weakness. Every tiny movement-every blink-hurt so much. You might want to show me some respect if you don’t want to be on the ground, helpless and weak. “I thought it was best to have it handy in case you lost control.” He came dangerously closer and lowered, his warm breath brushing the shell of my ear. Are you crying? Does it hurt?” Gene took his hand out of his pocket and showed me a metal trinket, a circle about the size of his thumb. A whimper escaped me, but it could have been only in my head. Immobile, a foot from my monster of a brother, I’d never felt so vulnerable. I had been wounded many times on missions, but nothing I’d felt in ISAN compared to what had just hit me. Hundreds of needles pricked me all at once.Įxcruciating pain seared from head to toe. An electrical sensation zapped through my middle and wrapped around me like invisible arms, holding me in place.

I should have landed on him, but instead I dropped to the floor on my hands and knees like a wounded deer. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo

Novak has been secretly creating an army called CODE, and what he plans for Ava will mean a permanent end to the rebels–and her. Rhett and his team desperately search for Ava while one of the Remnant Council joins forces with another network looking for the creator of the Helix serum. As she plans an escape, the lives of the rebel prisoners are in her hands, along with those she thought were dead. And she is not the only rebel held hostage at ISAN’s secret compound. Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction, Young Adultīehind enemy lines, new soldiers will emerge, and unexpected heroes will rise.Īva is a prisoner.

ISAN by Mary Ting